TagsTagsFantasist Scott Beauchamp is back, sort of, with a fawning interview in Radar Online. Bob Owens has a post at PJ Media reminding us of a few facts: Infamous ‘Shock Troops’ Author Back in the News.
LGF, Scott Beauchamp, The New Republic, Media Fraud, Media Bias
Iowahawk says he found the first draft of Franklin Foer’s latest article for the New Repubic on the Scott Beauchamp scandal, in a dumpster behind Marty Peretz’ townhouse. I don’t believe him, though. Judging from the length, this would have filled more than one dumpster: Misty Watercolor Memories, of the Fog ...
LGF, Iraq, New Republic, Military, Scott Beauchamp, Iowahawk, Parody
Howard Kurtz has an article for the Washington Post on the Scott Beauchamp New Republic scandal: New Republic Disavows Iraq Diarist’s Reports. After nearly five months of mounting criticism, the New Republic yesterday disavowed reports about petty wartime cruelty in Iraq, saying the magazine had lost faith in the Army ...
Bob Owens has the punchline: When I last spoke with Beauchamp in early November, he continued to stand by his stories. Unfortunately, the standards of this magazine require more than that. And, in light of the evidence available to us, after months of intensive re-reporting, we cannot be confident ...
At Confederate Yankee: Sacrificial Lamb? Head Fact-checker Gone at TNR.
LGF, Iraq, New Republic, Military, Scott Beauchamp, Fact Checking
The Los Angeles Times’ Tim Rutten managed to get nearly everything wrong in his article on the New Republic/Scott Beauchamp scandal, and Bob Owens nails every falsehood and distortion: I’m Sorry... Was That Supposed to be Journalism?
At New Republic “blog” The Plank, the editors have issued another non-statement about the ridiculously false stories of Scott Beauchamp: A Scott Beauchamp Update. There’s nothing new here; it’s the same line they’ve been using for months, ignoring all the evidence against the Beauchamp fables, and insisting that the Army is ...
Michael Yon has a good post today on the Scott Beauchamp scandal: Beauchamp and the Rule of Second Chances. Beauchamp is young; under pressure he made a dumb mistake. In fact, he has not always been an ideal soldier. But to his credit, the young soldier decided to stay, and ...
Bummerdietz emailed an interesting note about the Scott Beauchamp investigation documents: In the third document, at section 5.a.(vi), there’s a reference to “form DA 3881.” This is the acknowledgment that he has been read his rights, and that he has the right to remain silent and to have an attorney. Here’s a blank ...
Here are the internal documents from the investigation of The New Republic’s “Baghdad Diarist,” Scott Thomas Beauchamp, linked at Drudge Report this morning and subsequently removed. I have it on very good authority that these are completely genuine, no forgery involved. I wonder what they’ll call the sequel to Shattered Glass? How ...
The New Republic stonewalled for months about the ugly, dishonest anti-military fables by Scott Beauchamp. To this date they still have not recanted. The editors apparently believe that if they just ignore the scandal, it will eventually go away. Well, it’s going to be a little difficult for them to ignore ...
Here’s Scott Johnson on The New Republic’s ethics scandal, the scandal that’s being completely ignored by mainstream media as TNR editors hunker down and hope it all goes away: Power Line: It’s the coverup that kills you, part 2. TNR editor Franklin Foer and executive editor Peter Scoblic seem to ...
The New Republic has yet another empty statement on the Scott Beauchamp fraud scandal. There’s nothing new here; they still refuse to address any of the real issues with Beauchamp’s ridiculous fantasies, and they’re blaming the Army for not cooperating with their “investigation.” The article is for subscribers only, but ...
In one of the most tone-deaf hypocritical statements yet from The New Republic, Eve Fairbanks crows about the great “karmic satisfaction” she gets from the stupid controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s “phony soldiers” remark—ignoring the gigantic beam labeled “Scott Beauchamp” in The New Republic’s eye: The Plank. I can’t help but ...
LGF, Iraq, New Republic, Military, Scott Beauchamp, Rush Limbaugh
In his column on The New Republic Scott Beauchamp scandal, Charles Krauthammer zeroes in on the important aspect, the little detail that The New Republic tried to pass off as a simple mistake: The Baghdad Fabulist. Except that it is now revealed that the mess-hall incident happened before he even got ...
LGF, Krauthammer, Iraq, New Republic, Scott Thomas, Scott Beauchamp